EasySend, a no-code platform for building and optimizing digital customer journeys, announced a partnership with PSCU, the United States’ premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO). The partnership will integrate EasySend’s platform into PSCU’s back-end systems, helping to export and import data.

Smaregi, serving more than 98 thousand stores in Japan, has integrated the OCR module by Smart Engines into its mobile applications. Automatic extraction of passport data allows streamlining VAT-refund procedures in tax free shops for foreign citizens in Japan.

Face-to-face negotiation and human chemistry still play an important role during fundraising rounds. However, that is changing as data becomes the defining factor in negotiations. The past year and a half, in particular, has shone a spotlight on the value of data in how a business’ potential is assessed. This puts the onus on CFOs to consider how they use data analytics when making a case for funding. 

Eventus Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, today won the award for Trade Surveillance Product of the Year in the 2021 Risk Technology Awards. The firm won the comparable honor in 2019, also for its Validus platform that now provides not only trade surveillance and risk monitoring but also anti-money laundering and transaction monitoring.

The global fintech sector is expected to be worth more than $324 billion by 2026, growing significantly each year. In terms of geography, APAC and the Americas are those that are flourishing the most, closely followed by Europe. The former share some 40% of the market between them.

Fintech is present in almost every industry, but which is it disrupting the most?

Bybit, one of the top five major cryptocurrency exchanges, partners with leading identity verification solution provider Sumsub to eliminate possible safety threats for millions of users. The companies will achieve this through enhanced KYC/AML routines and secure identity checks that take no longer than 5 minutes, even in the most complex cases.

TruNarrative and ieDigital join forces to facilitate digital transformation and provide cutting edge customer onboarding and monitoring processes, reducing account opening time to less than four minutes.

Leeds Digital banking platform partners with Leeds based RegTech to provide Banks and mutual societies access to market leading ID verification, eKYC, AML and account monitoring technology.

Banks, payment services and FinTechs trust the TruNarrative platform for compliance, customer onboarding and financial crime prevention.

Banks have an opportunity to build on new digital services quickly introduced during the pandemic to offer customers more personalisation and reassurance on security

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, saw European retail investors were bullish on US indices last week, suggesting they were buying the dip.

Spectrum’s SERIX^TM indicator of European retail investor sentiment (see below for more information on methodology) values for S&P and DOW both hit their month high, 119 and 116 respectively on 19^th.